This Tuesday, I will be making a presentation about the use of Twitter throughout the Iranian Election Protests and the value of Twitter as a tactic to sustain contentious activity. You are welcome to check out my Presentation and come to the Mobile Applications and Social Media Conference (http://mobsoc.org/) on January 26, 2009 at 7:30 PM [...]
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The 2009 Iranian election protests used moral, cultural, socio-organizational, human, and material resources in order to sustain the movement. Edwards and McCarth explain that there are various resources that social movements benefit from: 1) moral; 2) cultural; 3) socio-organizational; 4) human; and, 5) material.
Moral resources can provide legitimacy, solidarity support, sympathetic support, and celebrity (125). [...]
In Resources and Social Movement Mobilization, Bob Edwards and John McCarthy explain the importance of resource mobilization for social movements. The authors believe that increased access to movements increase the likelihood of social movements to occur. They see that there is a resource inequality among movements (118) but proclaim that resources must be redistributed by [...]
